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Spain’s indignados at the crossroads
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One of the great weaknesses of Spain’s indignados movement, which this week celebrated its second birthday, has been its failure to pursue a strategy that turns power in the streets into the real power needed to change the world. In the Novembe...
Spain’s bad banking joke
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Despite an infusion of tens of billions of euros funded by citizens now left with huge debts and a downsized welfare state, Spain’s nationalised banks are providing fewer loans to the credit-starved economy than private lenders. It’s all...
929,903 reasons to oppose health privatisation
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Over 900,000 Madrileños have rejected plans to privatise state hospitals. In a popular consultation 99% of those who voted ((or 929,903) said No to proposals by the regional Popular Party government to hand over six h...
Italy: the jobs of the future
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Unemployment is the greatest emergency facing Italy. But new jobs cannot be achieved simply by tax reductions or incentives to companies to hire. You need a plan that will radically change the allocation of resources to the different parts of the eco...
A Week in Revolting Europe
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This is a weekly round-up of news, comment and analysis from Revolting Europe blog, plus our selection of the stories, photos and videos on the web. Click here A Week in Europe – Archive 2013 Friday May 3 Friday April 26 ...
The class nature of inflation
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Prices rises affect different income groups differently new figures for Italy show. One more argument for wage hikes for middle and low incomes New figures show how inflation has hit the worst-off hardest in Italy. Official data released for the seve...
Spain: No Country for Old Men
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By Nacho Goberna Spain is no country for old men. Maybe it was before, when today’s older generation were young, when shoulder to shoulder, with hope, they participated in building this society that we now share with them, or perhaps it will be...
Thousands protest in Spain against education cuts, reforms
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Unions say up to 70% of Spanish teachers followed a national strike Thursday over cuts, according to El Pais and other Spanish newspapers. Classes in Spain – from kindergarten to university - have been affected by this general strike...
Eurocrisis: why northern Europe should be celebrating
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According to legend, the bailouts of countries of Europe’s south have been costly for Germany and other northern countries such as Finland, Austria and Holland. Hence their obsession with policies of ‘rigor’ and deficit re...
Why French radicals are marching today – Interview with Mélenchon
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As French radicals march in Paris Sunday against the austerity policies of Socialist President Hollande, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, co-leader of the Left Party and last year’s Presidential election candidate for the radical Left Front, arg...
Italy’s experience shows that privatisation just benefits the few
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Privatisation has benefitted very few, leading to massive job losses, delivering a bad deal for consumers and sowing the seeds of today’s financial and economic crisis, and yet the process goes on, says Marco Bersani, who here, in an extract fr...
A Week in Revolting Europe
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This is a weekly round-up of news, comment and analysis from Revolting Europe blog, plus our selection of the stories, photos and videos on the web. Click here A Week in Europe – Archive 2013 Friday April 19 Friday April 12&nb...
The political battle for full employment
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By Juan Torres Lopez 70 years ago a very important Polish economist, Michal Kalecki, published an article (Political aspects of full employment) that I think has a great relevance today, particularly this May Day. Kalecki started out by recognizing t...
Amnesty for the bosses, none for the workers
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France’s socialist government stands accused of ditching yet another pledge after it rejected last week a campaign for an amnesty of workers convicted for offences during strikes and other protest actions. The bill, which excludes those found g...
Portugal’s Socialist Party, between illusion and cowardice
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Portugal’s Socialist Party is now 40 years old. But what happened to the ‘socialism’? asks Joao Mineiro The socialist party, founded in April 1973, has transformed itself its a strange thing called “democratic socialism&r...
Class, wealth and austerity crisis
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‘The odds of being a NEET, on low pay, or a school failure are clearly related to social origin. Living longer after retirement, the probability of being unemployed or the loss of purchasing power varies significantly by social class. Women who...
Italy’s centre-left is dead, long life the Italian Left!
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The ‘grand coalition’ between the Democratic Party and Berlusconi’s right-wing People of Liberty party means it’s time to say goodbye to the ‘centre-left’ and hello to a new Italian Left, says Marco Sfer...
Austerity puts Spaniards’ workplace health and safety at risk
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Every year, around 160,000 people die in the European Union as a result of illness or accidents caused by poor working conditions. However, the prescriptions imposed by the EU for ending the crisis – economic austerity and cuts in rights &ndash...
EU needs to stop multinationals ‘blacklisting’ workers
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Corporations operating in the UK, France, Ireland and Sweden have been accused of ‘blacklisting’ so it is time for the EU to legislate to outlaw the practice – says MEP Public Service Europe...
A Week in Revolting Europe
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This is a weekly round-up of news, comment and analysis from Revolting Europe blog, plus our selection of the stories, photos and videos on the web. Click here A Week in Europe – Archive 2013 Friday April 19 Friday Apri...
